Neat!

Just to be clear, we're submitting designs for the Unfallen, right?

Yes, you may start submitting entries. If you've read the rules, how should be clear.

Yes, you are submitting designs for the Unfallen.

If you so wish, you may also post these designs here, but understand that only email submissions will be taken into account (including changes -- no email no dice), and that this is the only place where they'll be displayed before the general vote to select the finalists, if you post them. You may post them elsewhere online, but again, that'll be your own responsibility. Haters will be sent a hitman.

OUTSTANDING! I'm in! Endless Space will be game with deep strategic layer, I suppose!

That's what we're aiming for, yes! Looking forward to seeing your submission!

Good luck to all the talented artists who will participate in this competition! Man, I'm jealous of your talent, I wish I could enter myself

The Unfallen might be a bit of a challenge, I hope we'll see something a bit more sci-fi than ents in space, especially considering the cyborg nature of their ships. Then again, having a plant-like lifeform in ES2 is cool enough on its own (been waiting for that since ES1) so, after a second thought, ents in space are actually not really a bad thing haha

I'm early to the party but I felt like I wanted to use my time yesterday and today drawing (but mostly today). And since we are allowed to shamelessly promote ourselves here I wanted to share some werk. Share some joy with ye this day:

Left: Civietree Right: Wartree

I like the idea that since an Unfallen would live for a very long time and "grow" over that time, they would grow as many appendages as they would like and in shapes they prefer to have upon oneself, perhaps in relation to their role in society; although I like the unifying theme of 5 glowing eyes and other markings that would set the Unfallen apart and be identifiable even if they are a mass of leaves and multiple vines arms - like a Tangela Pokemon .

I also quite like the idea of incorporating rock, crystal and "structures" woven into the growth worn as decoration or armour to break up the wood like organic body; perhaps if this concept was explored further, each Unfallen would have a core "stone" that the body anchors around. This design of natural woods mixed with geological elements like stones, precious or no, as well as parts of other civilizations structures or Endless architecture would create rather interesting looking heroes and ships - at least I think so.

I was toying around with ship ideas looking at seeds just before I went into Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics and I quite like the idea of solar sails instead of conventional engine propulsion to push the Unfallen ships through the void of space - kind of like how Eldar ships in 40k travel about. One of the smallest of these ships would be... a Sycamore Seed or Tadpole shape. An elongated ball with a sail, like ehhhh, this sort of:

Behold firepower!

But eh, more detailed obviously and a smaller sail. Put some guns on that and we are good to go.

I hope someone who is stuck for ideas gets a little boost forwards from my post as well, a spark of creativity!

Thats all for now, I will reserve this spot for the future finishes and ships and so on. Then I will scan my images properly and crop them into the correct file size and resolution for the email.

Digitalhawk96 wrote:

 This design of natural woods mixed with geological elements like stones, precious or no, as well as parts of other civilizations structures or Endless architecture would create rather interesting looking heroes and ships - at least I think so.

I like what I am seeing and those are some intriguing ideas, keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing your work with the community, looks like it'll be a great submission!

BG123 wrote:

Wooh! Nice to see the first submission, it looks great. 

Not the first to the party.

Digitalhawk96 wrote:

I'm early to the party but I felt like I wanted to use my time yesterday and today drawing (but mostly today). And since we are allowed to shamelessly promote ourselves here I wanted to share some werk. Share some joy with ye this day:

Left: Civietree Right: Wartree

This is EXACTLY the kind of stuff I visualized when I created them. 

Also, the musings over a caste system and incorporated stone, etc. are awesome. I love the ideas. 

Great work!

DevildogFF wrote:

This is EXACTLY the kind of stuff I visualized when I created them. 

Also, the musings over a caste system and incorporated stone, etc. are awesome. I love the ideas. 

Great work!

Yusss. The space cred is real. Thanks, I am glad to hear such praise from ye.

Also, I would like to thank everyone else so far to has given me kudos for my pieces, for your kind words.

I have to say that I've rarely had to fend off so many members of the Amplicrew who wanted to participate.

"But I have so many ideas!"

"Shh, it's a community faction, let the community do it and go back to designing AI!"

Frogsquadron wrote:

I have to say that I've rarely had to fend off so many members of the Amplicrew who wanted to participate.

"But I have so many ideas!"

"Shh, it's a community faction, let the community do it and go back to designing AI!"

That makes me immeasurably happy.